All posts tagged: press coverage

The Best places to see in London’s Columbia Road Flower market

Last month, I mentioned a photo shoot in Columbia Road Flower market for a feature in Time Out magazine, on creative people shopping at London’s best street markets. The article came out yesterday. I picked up a copy on my way to a business meeting and ended up smiling like an idiot in the train stopping myself from saying to complete strangers in the tube “Look! c’est moi là.” For botanists Columbia Road Flower Market Our market insider: Karine Candice Kong, Design Expert When should you visit Columbia Road Flower Market? The Market starts at 8 am every Sunday and it’s best to get there as early as possible. It gets very busy if the weather is quite nice. It winds down about 3 pm. What do you head for? One of my favourite shops is Vintage Heaven at no 82 – it’s the perfect place to snap up vintage treasures. The Yard on Ezra street is a mini flea market that has some great things and is always worth a look. Rob Ryan makes intricate and …

Our French house in Junior magazine…

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Excitement is running high this morning in the B&F office! We’ve just received the June issue of Junior magazine and here it was… three pages on our house in France with lovely pictures of Mila Sienna and Lily. A big thank you to everybody at Junior magazine, the wonderful Ruth Corbett for writing just a lovely article about us and being so generous and Alun Callender for his beautiful pictures. As it happens, we just came back from our annual get-together in the house which this year was very special because we are now all living around Europe: Elodie & Christophe are in Barcelona, Alexia & Nicolas in Bruxelles, Val & Chris in Paris and us in London so it was really cool to spend a few days together. This time, there was 22 of us, 3 children, 2 babies and a dog. I thought I would impress everyone with my vodka jelly, a recipe I got from my friend Verity in New-Zealand but Christophe beat me to it with his mojitos but once again …

Great review in EASY LIVING

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We have a great review in Easy Living this month… ‘It’s three years since French sisters Karine and Elodie set up online boutique BODIE and FOU. An Easy Living favourite, its cyber shelves are filled with the most covetable items, from pretty framed prints to elegant practical items, such as this silver ceramic vase.’ Sadly the silver vase is now sold out but the Aqua vase is still available and of course the striking Grass vases (below) by Normann Copenhagen which are still flying off the shelves… http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/UxVs

Our French home in Grand Designs magazine

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Flying back from France yesterday, I picked up a copy of Grand Designs magazine at the airport and there it was, running on 7 pages, the Grand Designs Master feature featuring our holiday home in France. We are all very happy and proud mothers I can tell you and it is such a great coverage for our little business, I can’t thank enough the team at Grand Designs, Nonie Niesewant for her wonderful article and Chris Tubbs for his amazing pictures, kindness and generosity so here are the article. SISTER ACT Karine Köng and her sister are real connoisseurs of chic, so their interiors website BODIE and FOU is an essential stop-off for style lovers everywhere. ‘Chic‘ is a tricky concept: hard to define but easy to spot. It’s less assertive than the wow factor and it’s certainly not bling – more the new Mrs Sarkozy meeting the Queen. Though it’s openly flaunted on the catwalk in France, chic is equally at home behind closed doors in fashionable interiors. So when thirtysomething French sisters Elodie and …

BODIE and FOU site of the month in Real homes magazine

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We had another great write up in Real Homes this month (c’est la fete!!). BODIE and FOU is website of the month and they wrote: “BODIE and FOU is a great one-stop website for all things interior. Choose from a gorgeous Cote Bastide scented candle or room spray (from £17) to an elegant chaise longue. The site is very user-friendly and cleverly split into room categories so you can find what you’re after at the click of a mouse button. But that’s not all, sign up to the BODIE and FOU newsletter and receive 10% off as well as the chance to win a prize in its monthly draw.”We cant argue with this, can we.Thanks to Real Homes magazine http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/UxVs

Our family in YOU magazine

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Our home in France was recently featured in YOU magazine. I can’t thank enough Clare and the team at You Magazine, Alun Callender for his beautiful photography and Fiona McCarthy for her words. We absolutely love the whole thing and we can’t wait to go back there to enjoy more happy, relaxing moments with friends, family & the kids. See below for the full article… Inspired by childhood summers, online boutique owner Karine Kong has created a simple yet elegant holiday home in Southwest France – the ideal setting for her family to unwind. Stepping through the open French windows that lead into the huge pine-scented garden of Karine Kong & Steven Kirk’s holiday home near the Bay of Arcachon in the Gironde, Southwest France, one immediately wonders how they could contemplate living anywhere else. Yet, with Karine as a co-founder of the chic but modern interiors website BODIE and FOU – set up with her younger sister Elodie, nearly two years ago – they divide much of their time between their homes in …